The Correspondent

Lee Williamson discusses the results of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong 2025 Press Freedom survey and the upcoming annual journalism conference with Robin Ewing, broadcaster on RTHK3 and director of the Masters of International Journalism program at Hong Kong Baptist University. The annual press freedom survey revealed increased pressure and self-censorship among journalists, with 62...

FCC Correspondent Governor Jennifer Jett moderates a panel of Hong Kong-based shipping industry veterans to discuss the many challenges facing the global shipping industry, including the latest salvo in Trump's trade war with China, called Section 301, which states any ship built, owned or operated by China will be charged millions of dollars to dock at any US port. Angad Banga is the Chief Operat...

Veteran broadcast journalist and FCC correspondent member governor Karen Koh convenes a panel discussion and an in-depth, personal and revealing QandA with the audience after a screening of "The M Factor: shredding the silence on menopause" documentary. The panel includes: Christine Deschemin, a hypnotherapist and founder of the Menopause Festival; Maria Chau, COO of the Women's Foundation, and Br...

Hong Kong was once the poster-child of artistic freedom in Asia as well as an unparalleled leader of the region's booming contemporary art market. However, despite growing uncertainties over the "red lines" of censorship, there are more world-class art institutions in the city than ever before and the market has proved resilient, with international auction houses and galleries continuing to expand...

Hong Kong categorises people who are not Chinese or caucasian as "ethnic minorities" and its media often portrays these people as an underclass of criminals, incapable of making contribution to mainstream society. In this panel discussion, journalist and FCC Clare Hollingworth fellow Jay Ganglani moderates a panel of two prominent trailblazers of African and South Asian heritage, along with a jour...

Multiplatform broadcast journalist Laura Westbrook speaks with fellow journalists and members of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club: Zela China, journalist governor on the FCC board, broadcast journalist, president of the Asia chapter of the Asian American Journalist's Association, and Kriti Gandhi, recipient of the FCC's Claire Hollingworth Fellowship and video producer at the South China...

Veteran broadcast journalist Karen Koh speaks with writer/designer Billy Potts and collaborator/photographer Ben Marans about their HK Ghost Signs project, recording and documenting signs in Hong Kong left behind and found in all sorts of locations, marking different eras, technologies and cultural movements that have left their mark on a fast-changing city. Find them on Instagram: @hkghostsigns P...

Journalist and broadcaster Laura Westbrook sits down with two members of the FCC for two very different perspectives on 2024 and the year that was. Harry Harrison might just be the last surviving daily editorial cartoonist in Hong Kong, and speaks about his favourite news moments of the year, the prospect of drawing Donald Trump for four more years, and the real-life backgrounds and stories of som...

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong announced a little while ago that Kriti Gandhi and Jay Ganglani are the recipients of the sixth annual Clare Hollingworth Fellowship, named in honor of the preeminent and path-breaking journalist. Listen in as they discuss why they chose careers in journalism at a time when the future of news appears mostly bleak. Hear them discuss how the changing news...

Hear veteran broadcast journalist Karen Koh in discussion with Chinese foreign correspondent Dr Rose Luqiu and Hong Kong-born international broadcast journalist Laura Westbrook on the upcoming US election, from an Asian perspective: what is being discussed on Chinese social media and in state media, how "third culture" people view the attacks on Kamala Harris' mixed race heritage, how sexism and "...

Grammy and Pulitzer-prize winning trumpeter, composer and band leader Wynton Marsalis has this month toured with his Lincoln Jazz Centre Orchestra through Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong dropped by for a QandA at the FCC with Robin Ewing, director of the Journalism Masters program at Hong Kong Baptist University and presenter of the RTHK3 'Feelin Kinda Sunday' program. It was incidentall...

Author, broadcaster and art critic John Batten discusses the life and legacy of architect IM Pei with Karen Koh, based on his published article in the latest FCC magazine "A Life in Architecture". Hear the history and symbolic post-colonial importance of the design of the Bank of China building, wrongly characterized as "a knife pointed towards China", and of the details you need to know in the M+...

Selina Cheng, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists' Association discusses the revelations of a campaign to intimidate journalists and their families by self-described "patriots" in what appears to be a coordinated campaign, how the Hong Kong government and tech companies Meta and Wikimedia have responded, and how the HKJA is helping journalists fight back. Hear her also speak to her own experience o...

Hear the FCC statement published on August 29th upon the trial and conviction of Hong Kong journalists Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam for their roles in reporting, editing and publishing interviews, features and opinion pieces. Of the 17 articles the court considered, many had been taken down and only five remained active at the time of their arrest, but the Wan Chai District Court ruled that 11 h...

Britt Clennett is a correspondent for US broadcaster ABC News, based in Hong Kong and has spent the past 10 years covering stories in Hong Kong, mainland China and most recently Ukraine and Gaza. In this conversation she discusses her feature article 'Staying Human' in which she looks at the challenges to journalistic impartiality, finding humanity amongst deep generational hatred, and how she dea...

An in-depth discussion between FCC president Lee Williamson and Joe Kahn, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, former China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and executive editor of the New York Times since 2022. Kahn discusses how the NYT coverage of Hong Kong and mainland China has changed, and how it reflects the changing environment of local and national security laws as well as the re...

Stephen Roach, former Wall Street chief economist and Hong Kong-based chair of Morgan Stanley Asia, caused controversy earlier this year with the publishing of an opinion piece headlined "It pains me to say Hong Kong is over." His case reflected three considerations - the tight economic linkages between Hong Kong and a faltering mainland Chinese economy, the crossfire of the US-China conflict and...

Laura Westbrook and Aaron Busch present this special episode for the return of the FCC Hong Kong journalism conference. Hear from David Pierson (New York Times) about the challenges of covering Beijing's foreign policy and China's geopolitics from Hong Kong; Kathleen Magramo (CNN) on the lessons she learned in her first year of journalism in 2019, Filipino representation in Hong Kong and covering...

Christina Pantin presents an episode talking about the other great Olympics competition: to get the best photo, the best story, the best quote.  Josh Ball is News Editor, Sport & Racing for the South China Morning Post and has covered previous Olympics and major international sports events both as a desk editor and frontline reporter for the past 25 years. Peter Parks is the chief photogr...

Hear three senior journalists discuss the big issues for women in journalism upon International Women's Day. How have attitudes changed for women in newsrooms across southeast Asia, what are the biggest challenges they face, what is the future of journalism, and what do they have to say to the upcoming generations of women entering the profession? This panel discussion was part of the Hong Kong In...

Hear the submission made by the board of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong to the government over the proposed Article 23 security legislation, as well as the panel discussion on its implications for journalism featuring Ronson Chan (chair, Hong Kong Journalists' Assoc), Regina Ip (politician, member of LegCo) and Professor Simon Young (barrister). Music courtesy Allen Youngblood. Host...

FCC journalist member governor Zela Chin speaks with 2024 Claire Hollingworth Fellows Mithil Aggarwal and Aruzhan Zeinulla discuss their journey into journalism, how GenZ media habits are changing the media landscape and thoughts on the future. Christina Pantin looks at the various incarnations of the FCC from its beginnings in 1949 Shanghai, its Hollywood and literature links up to the present da...

It was a slow news day that went for two years - when Christopher Chau and Maggie Hoi Pui Man found themselves confined to Macau from December 2021 to November 2022 they found themselves rediscovering the city and its landmarks. They started taking notes, doing interviews and ended up writing the book ' Macau's Historical Witnesses ', exploring Macau's history through a collection of vignettes, an...

Teele Rebane speaks in-depth with one of the newest FCC members, Aaron Busch, about how his @tripperhead Twitter account became an invaluable source to Hong Kong journalists, his role as 'social media journalist' and relationship with traditional journalism as well as his forecast for Twitter and its rivals. Following on from the historic exhibition of Hong Kong pandemic memes on the hallowed wall...

It is now almost eight years since Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 vanished on its way to Beijing, on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board. “Good night, Malaysia 370” are the last words the world ever heard from the plane, about 40 minutes after its take-off from Kuala Lumpur. This is the starting point of what has since been called the greatest mystery in the history of civil aviation. French-...